Square, square.
An office where the only sound is the soft sound of a luxurious fountain pen filling the margins of a piece of paper.
As if to show the personality of the office owner, it was equipped with only the necessities, and even the angle of the desk and the furniture were precise, showing the personality of the person who managed it.
In that quiet office where there was no sound other than the sound of a fountain pen.
“I think I got caught. What are you going to do?”
“…….”
square….
A stranger's voice was heard.
“…….”
There was clearly only one man in the office, but at some point a middle-aged man spoke to me, and for the first time, the movement of the fountain pen stopped.
“…I told you not to come in without permission.”
“I’m sorry about that, but I was wondering. I wonder if you’re being too peaceful.”
“It’s none of your business.”
“Oh my, how could that be? After all, we are on the same boat.”
“Know your subject. Do you think that just because I briefly joined hands with the likes of you, we become comrades?”
“How spicy.”
The two didn't seem to get along well.
No, it seemed like the owner of the office was unilaterally disdainful of middle-aged people.
Although it would be natural for the middle-aged man to feel uncomfortable with such gaze, he shrugged his shoulders slightly, perhaps not wanting to offend the landlord who was hiding 'them'.
“Well, I’ll be careful what I say. I have no desire to defy the master of Lohengrin.”
“…….”
The man's eyebrows furrowed further.
Because those words felt like they were rambling.
– Roses of Tura de Lohengrin.
He was none other than the current head of the sacred family Lohengrin, and Roses finally put down the fountain pen in his hand and met the middle-aged man's gaze with seriousness.
“They call you parasites outside? I can see why they call you that. You can’t help but be an incompetent bunch who can’t do anything but parasitize others.”
“Hey, that’s a bit….”
“Am I wrong? You said that if you put your mind to it, there is nothing you cannot do. But contrary to your words, you keep failing, and are defeated by a single knight. Do you know what I am thinking when I see this?”
“…….”
“It’s ‘regret.’ Regret and self-loathing about the fact that the people I joined hands with were such an incompetent group.”
"hmm…."
“If there was a way to replace you, I would have done it without a second thought. That’s how incompetent you are. You useless bastards.”
“…….”
“You must stop disappointing me. If you don’t, I don’t know what I’ll do. … Show me some results. Otherwise, you will be ordered to change your mind by my hand, no one else’s.”
“…….”
“Get out. Unlike you guys who are free, I am busy.”
It was a cold and bitter reception, and the middle-aged man had no choice but to leave with a bitter smile on his face.
I wanted to say something in rebuttal, but… .
'I have nothing to say in rebuttal.'
Because they are all true.
“…….”
Percussion… .
Even after confirming that the middle-aged man had left, Rose could not bear the rising discomfort and could not do her work.
Thud.
The fountain pen in his hand had long since turned to dust and disappeared, and Rose sighed.
“I also have this kind of personality problem.”
Why do you get so angry just because a pest does something a little unpleasant?
Rose was berating herself for not being able to calm down a little.
And Rose said,
“…….”
Click.
After making sure there was no noise around the office, I opened one of the desk drawers and took something out.
Hair that shines golden.
It looked like human hair, and despite having been in the drawer for a long time, it had not lost its luster, so it seemed to have been magically processed. Rose, who was touching this hair, smiled faintly for the first time.
As if just looking at it makes you happy.
And then.
“…I miss you. So much…. So please wait. I will definitely get you back, no matter what.”
Even if…!
“Even if I have to sacrifice your daughter, that dirty Galahad-blooded woman-.”
Rose muttered to herself as if making a promise, and smiled.
Brightly.
“-This is the craziest guy I’ve ever seen. Where can you find someone like that?”
Meanwhile, Rose would think that there was no one around, but the middle-aged man would check what Rose was doing through the window as if mocking him, and would have a bitter sneer.
Anyway, it seems like there's no way he wouldn't be disgusting.
“Isn’t that so?”
“Yes, I guess I’m just trying to feel better.”
“Hehe, if that’s love, then it’s love. Even if it’s a crazy love-hate relationship.”
“…To my eyes, it just looks like an obsession. The obsession of a psychopath.”
“That wouldn’t be wrong either.”
The middle-aged man nodded his head obediently.
As I said, Rose, the master of Lohengrin, has been crazy for a long time.
If not, would they even cooperate with us?
This was not the kind of behavior that a great nobleman, the head of an honorable family of knights, should have done. He was already walking a path soaked in blood.
but.
“Well, thanks to that, I’m using it well.”
It must have been fortunate that they were able to use Lohengrin thanks to his appropriate madness.
He was a middle-aged man who was satisfied with this one fact, and he was satisfied… .
“Oh, now that you mention it….”
“?”
“I have heard that the men of Lohengrin have sent assassins against some impious person who uses their name. They say he is a fugitive from the Empire.”
“…Why now of all times?”
“Don’t you know the pride of nobles? I guess they wanted to punish the person who forged their surname.”
“What if the impostor is dangerous?”
“I’m worried about that too, but they say not to worry. They say he’s completely different from the known dangerous people. And what’s the point of worrying? It’s already happened.”
“No, what….”
The middle-aged man's eyes trembled faintly.
You committed a crime when it would have been enough to keep quiet?
Even though they know full well that they exist?
… Anyway, these are the great nobles!
“Sometimes, when you see them, they are worse than us.”
They must be incredibly crazy seeds.
“Whew, I guess I hope this gets resolved amicably.”
Instead of worrying about things that have already been resolved, middle-aged people just want things to be resolved.
……what.
Kwajik-!
“Is this all?”
“…….”
“Oh, I was such an idiot. What good would it do to talk to those who came to kill me? The answer would be to just fight.”
“…….”
“─I’m going.”
Hwaaaaah!
… The problem was that, contrary to the middle-aged man’s wishes, Lohengrin’s choice turned out to be the worst.
They did not yet know that what they had touched was a beehive.
* * *
Crunch!!
The knight's thrown hatchet did not hit the assassins who had attacked him, but instead struck empty air.
But then, in what was clearly an empty space, there was a sound of something cutting, and then… .
dump!
… Suddenly, a person named Inyoung appeared and started to collapse.
It was obvious that he was a wizard because he was holding a short staff, but this was not a very positive sign.
“Hey, Inooooom!”
Phage crackle!
A psychokinetic storm with intense brain electricity.
The wizard was barely holding on to his life thanks to the magic field, even though blood was pouring out of his chest. As if burning with anger, the wizard poured all of his remaining magic power into it and focused a desperate blow on just one person.
It was a single blow that a single wizard, an old wizard who seemed to have lived for quite some time, had unleashed with all his might, and it was a powerful blow that could pierce through even a large monster in one breath… .
Crunch.
Gulp… .
"…uh?"
“Don’t I know the tricks of a solicitor?”
There he was, piercing through the storm of psychic power and the magnetic field in an instant, piercing the wizard's neck.
The knight gave a numb gaze as he finished off one of the wizards, and left it at that.
Woohoo!
I twisted my neck in a direction I shouldn't have.
“Banri-kong!!”
The assassin3 was howling the name of the dead wizard, and the knight even had the leisure to lightly shake his hand and retrieve his hatchet.
“You bastard, how dare you…!”
Hwaaaaak!
Assassin 3, with a look of hatred on his face, rushed forward with his blade thrust in.
The momentum he was emitting was unusual, and judging by the way it made the surrounding air tremble, it was clear that he was a strong man who was emitting a lot of fighting spirit.
It is no exaggeration to say that a skilled person who is a top-class knight does so,
Crunch!
“Ahhhhh…!”
“This kid is funny too. Why are you acting like a victim when you came to kill me first? Isn’t this crazy?”
The knight, who easily blocked the devastating blow with his palm and snapped Assassin 3's wrist like a reed, could only look at him in bewilderment once again.
“Not only the order-breaker who just snapped his neck, but you smell like blood too, right?”
“This, this….”
“Hmm, where have I seen that ordering person before? And where have I seen you too?”
Wood crunch!
“!!?”
The knight's hand was already grasping the opponent's chin, and he looked back and forth between the face of the assassin 3 and the dead spellcaster, then made an expression as if something was about to come to mind.
I think I've seen it somewhere.
Suddenly, while he was worrying like that.
Phew!
Phew!
A silent needle-shaped dagger flew towards him, but he easily swatted it away and blocked it.
But this was the opponent's tactic.
It was a secret weapon that was fired with the intention of blocking it.
but.
“You idiot! Arachne’s venom is as toxic as hydrochloric acid! The moment you stop it, your hand will melt….”
“Oh, I remember. You guys [Bloodwind], right? The assassination group that operated in the Empire.”
…it didn't seem to work for him at all.
“…….”
“The name is really childish, but their actions are brutal and ruthless. They are a group of crazy guys who will kill pregnant women or children without regard for the means and methods for their goals. They are fools who aimed for the head of the imperial warlords, but ended up destroying their organization and even became wanted.”
Crunch…!
“Somehow, it gave off a disgusting smell. That was the reason.”
“Oh, it’s poisoned, why….”
Assassin 2's pupils trembled as he looked at the knight who was not only calmly reciting their personal details, but was also snapping Assassin 3's neck with one hand.
I knew that he was not the kind of person who would be treated so vainly.
But what is even more shocking is.
“Well, the joke ends here….”
Kkuddeuk!
… … The form of the article, no, the body-.
──The fact was that [transformation] was taking place.
Big and mighty, and,
“…There are about fifty people? That’s fortunate. Even if we leave one or two alive, it will be easy to extract information.”
The assassins' bodies trembled as they watched the knight transform, or rather [evolve], into an 'extremely violent form'.
The upper garment he was wearing had long since disappeared due to his muscles that were about to burst, and the knight was clad in an armor of muscles that would overwhelm even full plate armor.
Boom!
It turned the surrounding area upside down.
Not an idiomatic expression….
Kookookookookung!
The ground was literally turning upside down.
… … That day, a magnitude 4.2 earthquake occurred, but people simply dismissed it as a minor incident, knowing that it only caused the windows to shake slightly.
It was not expected that this was a man-made earthquake.
If they had wanted to, they could have caused an even bigger commotion, but thanks to the consideration of the caring knight who cheered on the young people enjoying the party, the party, the party of young people, was able to continue.
